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Mainspring Fund Services and Aspida Group have partnered to provide Guernsey-domiciled private equity and venture capital funds with a comprehensive solution for fund administration, compliance, governance and reporting.
At the same time, the partner firms confirmed their very first launch – a USD550m Private Investor Fund. The Guernsey-domiciled Fund, which has completed its first close, is run with a global mindset, investing in growth-stage technology companies across Europe, Asia and North America. The Fund is structured with a dedicated feeder for employees, advisers and affiliates.
Through the partnership, fund managers will benefit from the focused, specialist services of Aspida for
IronNet Cybersecurity (IronNet), a cybersecurity specialist backed by private equity investor C5 Capital, is to merge with LGL Systems Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
The transaction will see IronNet list on the New York Stock Exchange and trade under the ticker symbol IRNT.
IronNet merges industry-leading cybersecurity products with expert service to create a platform designed to deliver the most advanced, real-time cyber defense globally, protecting both private and public sectors. Bringing together some of the best minds in cybersecurity from industry, government and academia, IronNet was created to more effectively defend enterprises, sectors and nations
Anchin, Block & Anchin (Anchin) has launched an emerging manager platform for start-up and early-growth hedge, private equity, real estate and venture capital funds, offering a mix of traditional and non-traditional professional services across audit, tax, advisory and consulting.
Read the full story at Hedgeweek…
MintGreen has closed a seed financing round, led by CoinShares Ventures, the investment arm of the publicly listed digital asset investment firm, as it looks to deploy the first large-scale commercial project to harvest heat from bitcoin mining.
MintGreen is a Canadian clean tech company that recovers waste heat from cryptocurrency mining and sells it via heat off-take agreements with industrial clients. MintGreen’s proprietary immersion bitcoin mining systems use clean sourced electricity twice; first to mine bitcoin, and then to produce zero carbon heating. The persistent and predictable heat loads generated year-round are complementary to the needs of industrial processes
Ten scaleups, which between them secured 20 per cent of total UK tech VC investment at USD3.5 billion drove UK tech in 2020, according to Tech Nations’ latest report on the state of the UK tech sector.
In this week’s podcast, Private Equity Wire picked the brains of Albright Capital CIO and co-founder John Yonemoto to find out how EM policy makers responded to the pandemic, whether events that unfolded in 2020 have reinforced some of the beliefs LPs might hold regarding EM private markets, and some of the investment risk disparities between developed and emerging markets at the moment.
Deep Tech start up Nuventura has launched a new funding round in order to make the crucial next steps towards the product’s industrialisation and prepare for expansion into other markets. In December 2020 deep tech startup Nuventura successfully closed an equity funding round of EUR2.5 million in extension of its 2019 seed round.
This funding round was led by new investors Cycle Eco Technology Fund and DOEN Participaties with the participation of existing investors IBB Ventures, APEX Energy and Future Energy Ventures as well as several well-known angel investors. To date, Nuventura’s total funding amounts to more than EUR8 million.
TotemFi, a decentralised finance (DeFi) prediction markets platform for the crypto community, has closed USD255,000 funding round with a roster of strategic investors including DuckDAO, Nabais Capital, LD Capital, Alphabit, Altvest, Moonwhale Ventures, and Bluenode Capital.
CEO Jolyon Layard-Horsfall says: “We couldn’t be happier with the strategic investors we’ve partnered with; each of them brings significant expertise, and comprehensive industry knowledge, to our project. We’ve no doubt that their help, guidance, and deep pools of talent will take TotemFi to the next level, and these strategic partnerships will prove invaluable long into the future.”
The raise follows a successful incubation
Fidelity International (Fidelity), a global asset manager with total client assets of USD706.3 billion, and Moonfare, the leading digital investment platform for high quality private markets funds, announce an exclusive strategic distribution partnership.
Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
PE investors expect a ‘U-shaped’ recovery, according to ‘Covid-19 and the world of private equity: optimism in an uncertain environment’, a survey released today by audit firm Mazars, that gauges investor sentiment in the institutional funding market.
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